Kalin Lucas led the way with 15 points and Durrell Summers
chipped in 10 for the Spartans (24-5, 14-3 Big Ten), who claimed
the outright Big Ten regular-season title for the first time
since 1999.

"I think I'm like everyone else at times, being spoiled and
forgetting how hard it is to win on the road," Michigan State
coach Tom Izzo said. "There have been a lot of championship
teams that have gone to certain places where we were the
superior team and we won in overtime, one by one, won by two. I
was disappointed with our performance. But, I was impressed by
Indiana's performance. We just hung in there and we played
hard."

Michigan State ends the regular season on Saturday against
Purdue, which sits 2 1/2 games back in second place.

The Hoosiers made it close with some tight defense in the second
half, holding Michigan State without a field goal for nearly
nine minutes before Morgan found his way to the rim for a dunk
with 29 seconds left.

"We didn't execute very well," Izzo said. "We had a couple of
turnovers and every time we touched a human being it was a foul.
That got real sickening to be very honest about it. I did not
really understand after like the fifth, it's so much different,
it's hard for a player and it goes both ways."

The Spartans looked to be running away when they took a 56-43
with 9:10 left to play on Summers' three-point play, but Indiana
used a 13-2 run to cut it to 58-56 on Nick Williams' 3-point
shot with 5:16 left.

"I am very proud of the way we have bounced back since last
Wednesday night against Northwestern with our mindset," Indiana
coach Tom Crean said. "They are believing that they can win.
We are starting to play our best basketball in the sense because
that mindset is so right. We played an excellent team tonight.
We knew that. We knew we were going to have to be close to
flawless to compete with them. And at the same time we were
going to have to keep them off balance the best we could."

The Hoosiers missed on four straight possession with a chance to
take the lead before Morgan's dunk gave Michigan State some
breathing room.

Verdell Jones collected 15 points and six rebounds to lead
Indiana (6-23, 1-16), which has lost eight in a row.

"This is a tough loss when you feel like you have it in your
hands and then you let it slip away," Jones said.

"It was a great game," Crean said. "Our guys were in it the
entire way, to the very end. They could have packed it in at
the 13-point deficit, which could have happened in previous
weeks, but hey didn't do that. That is a sign of maturity and
our goal as we go through this is to keep playing better
basketball, keep building a better mindset, and keep building
that belief that we can win now and we can win in the future."

The Hoosiers' five home wins are their fewest in a single season
since 1969-70. They also tied the school record for worst home
winning percentage in a season (.333), set in the 1943-44
campaign.